Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, University of Toronto, and UCL have developed a technique for imaging objects outside of a device’s line of sight.
The technique combines special sources of light, sensors, and computer vision processing to deduce or reconstruct highly detailed imagery, without having previously captured the image or “viewed” it directly. As noted in TechCrunch, the team is even able to reconstruct objects around corners with tremendous accuracy using multiple measurements and information about the target object’s geometry.